Wether CF cards or USB drives, performance varies greatly between brands. There are some 'fast' drives (i.e read or write fast) that perform horribly for many small files (slow random access speed) and where the 'slow' drives handle with ease.

The various brands don't advertise these differences openly, it's pretty much a guessing game.

I mean, even though I'm getting such slow transfer rates this thing is still way faster than my 7200 rpm hard drive in everything from apps to the internet to booting. I blame access times, but regardless.........

Do you think it's my OS that's limiting me? I love how SuSE is full featured, and I absolutely adore how simple YaST is to get everything configured, and all in one spot. I tried several linuxes' on this card, but not DSL. I'll have to try it when I do some upgrades in the next couple of months. I think I'd rather have the speed than the ease of use.